The Feb. 27–28 competition gives student teams access to real news data, AI-powered tools and cash prizes for top ...

It was a programming class filled with massive barriers. The students had no internet, personal computers or homework tools besides old-fashioned paper and pencils. Many came from low-income ...

As a computer science student at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Zin Khant likens the advent of artificial intelligence to the discovery of electricity — a modern Rosetta Stone that will ...

Higher education institutions are finding that hackathons — events inviting students to participate in science, technology, engineering and math challenges — are a great way to connect coding to ...

As it enters its fourth year, Go Code Colorado, the statewide business app competition run by officials in the Secretary of State’s office, has produced several notable online tools. Among them are ...

ANKENY, Iowa — Nick Leeper spends most of his days writing code and building products for Des Moines-based start-up Dwolla. However, he spent Saturday "hacking away" at a program that another business ...

I followed a hackathon team as they raced to vibe code an app in seven hours at Google's Gemini 3 Hackathon in Singapore.

If you can write computer code -- and think you're good at it -- there's no end of opportunities to prove your mastery in a fast-paced hackathon. Pick a project. Race the clock. See if you can create ...

‘Hacking’ is creative problem solving, commonly through emerging technology and often at short fast-moving, caffeine-assisted events. The Hackathon for Wildlife aimed to develop innovative approaches ...

Hackathons have always been creative. They remind me of spontaneous music jams - only instead of drummers and saxophonists, we gather as product managers, UI designers and coders. Sometimes people ask ...